Florida Bans Journalist’s Prison Memoir as ‘Dangerously Inflammatory’
Journalist Keri Blakinger’s new memoir, Corrections in Ink, about her time in prison was impounded (and effectively banned from all state-run prison and jail facilities) until the Florida Department of Corrections Review Committee approves of it or implements a blanket ban.
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Journalist Keri Blakinger’s new memoir, Corrections in Ink, has been banned in Florida prisons, Jaclyn Diaz reports for NPR. In a move flagged by the nonprofit Prison Book Program, a copy of Blakinger’s memoir about her time in prison was impounded (and effectively banned from all state-run prison and jail facilities) until the Florida Department of Corrections Review Committee approves of it or implements a blanket ban.
“Florida bans thousands and thousands of titles — including things like Dungeons and Dragons and Klingon dictionaries. They have one of the largest banned books lists of all the states with lists that I’ve reviewed,” Blakinger said on Twitter. “And while I am not happy it is impounded, impoundment for being ‘dangerously inflammatory’ is pretty dope. But the idea it poses a threat to security or to the ‘rehabilitative’ goals of prison is LAUGHABLE… my book is more rehabilitative than Florida prisons have ever been.”
